As someone who has dedicated my life to improving care for kidney patients, I’m deeply disturbed by the proposed FY2026 budget cuts and restructuring. These policies would gut essential programs, eliminate critical research and innovation initiatives like KidneyX, and deprioritize chronic disease prevention altogether. Rolling NIDDK into a broader institute and cutting the CDC’s CKD funding is not reform. It is a reckless abandonment of the millions living with kidney disease. This proposal ignores the real-world impact on vulnerable patients and sets us back years in our fight for better outcomes, equity, and innovation in kidney care. I strongly condemn these short-sighted and harmful changes.
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The government is habitually over extended. Cuts ha e to be made everywhere and a reorganization will be needed for a smaller footprint.
As someone who has dedicated my life to improving care for kidney patients, I’m deeply disturbed by the proposed FY2026 budget cuts and restructuring. These policies would gut essential programs, eliminate critical research and innovation initiatives like KidneyX, and deprioritize chronic disease prevention altogether. Rolling NIDDK into a broader institute and cutting the CDC’s CKD funding is not reform. It is a reckless abandonment of the millions living with kidney disease. This proposal ignores the real-world impact on vulnerable patients and sets us back years in our fight for better outcomes, equity, and innovation in kidney care. I strongly condemn these short-sighted and harmful changes.
Paul D Gordon